General Discussion Thread

[peaches2217]

Given that AHS produces TTS professionally, I'd hold off. There's a good chance they'll invest in making TTS for the new characters, and TTS already exist for the rest.

Speaking of, I am weak for Shuo! She's so cute

 

[Rylitah]

Poor Seika. Not even AHS loves her. It's okay baby, I love you

It looks bad on first sight, but it's actually because Seika has considerably less samples than the rest orz. Everyone else has around 1000 recordings while Seika only has 200. She actually seems more expensive than I would expect - just a little more than double her price for any of the others and you get five times the amount of content ;;

 

[Rylitah]

ST Media (after over a year of inactivity on their twitter) and SeeU's official artist retweeted this, so it seems SeeU's getting an official celebration for her 10th anniversary coming up.

 

[Nezuh]

Well, thats unexpected.

 

[MillyAqualine]

OMG OMG OMG

I was wondering the other day while staring at her and UNI on Character Planet, if her company would at least do something, even if it's not about an update/release of her long-lost English project =o It's very cool to see they'll celebrate her birthday in a way !

 

[Exemplar]

A pretty decent half hour breakdown about vocaloid and it's community baring a few details like skipping over Kaito when discussing Meiko and Miku

 

[Deleted member 6215]

I'm glad SeeU isn't completely forgotten. She's still one of my favorites ever since she was release years ago :)

 

[aru ii]

It’s a bit sad that this video is a part of “prism of the past” series suggesting that Vocaloid is something forgotten. I would say it may be over dramatic, but true to some extend

 

[___]

It’s a bit sad that this video is a part of “prism of the past” series suggesting that Vocaloid is something forgotten. I would say it may be over dramatic, but true to some extend

She called SeeU a producer, I don't think it should be taken too seriously, especially considering we're in one of the most fruitful years in terms of vocaloid and overall vocal synth content.

 

[aru ii]

She called SeeU a producer, I don't think it should be taken too seriously, especially considering we're in one of the most fruitful years in terms of vocaloid and overall vocal synth content.

She did? "watches that part again" She really did

 

[Tortoiseshel]

Is Vocaloid (the software and/or the culture surrounding it) really that confusing that anyone who tries to talk about it from an outsider's perspective is just like, cursed to get at least one basic fact blatantly wrong? Because I'm pretty sure every single one of these "What is Vocaloid?" videos I've seen from someone not in the scene gets at least one basic fact blatantly wrong. Usually more.

 

[crtstatic]

outsider's perspective is just like, cursed to get at least one basic fact blatantly wrong?

This is the same software that has people constantly asking on google "is vocaloid an anime?"

Sadly, vocal synth culture seems to be difficult to navigate for outsiders dkvshgs (i know i had a lot to learn when i first discovered vocaloid)

 

[Scarlet Illusion]

I remember when I used to be an outsider, but I never found Vocaloid/vocal synths confusing. I understood that Miku and co. aren't real people and are a software (though, admittedly, I once thought it was one of those "secret" software that only certain people get to use; think like how there's animation/computer software exclusive to a particular company) and that the songs are made by countless musicians.

I feel like the problem lies in that these people likely don't fact check--I feel like the research is there, but the research they did is little more than taking whatever they find and taking it for absolute fact when.... it's just not.

 

[aru ii]

I listened to Miku for the first time when I was 9, and for some reason I didn’t questioned the fact that an “anime girl” is singing those songs. Over the years I tried to google “what is Vocaloid”, but when my childish brain saw words like “software” “voice library” “vocal synthesiser” or the images of the interface it just got really confused and ended up just giving up on trying to understand what is Vocaloid. But then Senbonzakura appears in my recommendations and I really liked it, so I was convinced to reader he what Vocaloid is, so I found minnemi’s (un)helpful guide to Vocaloid which made me really interested in Vocaloid.



This is a bit off topic isn’t it ╮(￣▽￣"")╭

 

[TheStarPalace]

For people who don't understand the culture of vocaloid it is really daunting. Most people don't even know what the term DAW means so explaining on a software level is hard enough.

 

[peaches2217]

Ah, I remember thinking Vocaloid was actually a band with a digital front, like Gorillaz. I remember seeing a bunch of different covers of Dear You and thinking "That's so cool! All of the members cover these songs individually~" Another oddly specific thing I remember was that, the day I discovered Vocaloid, I decided to look it up on YouTube because it was a snow day and I was trying to pirate Megamind, which was still in theaters at the time, but it was on a shady website and all of the adware slowed my computer down and YouTube was one of the only websites that wasn't affected. I remembered a friend mentioning Vocaloid in passing and decided I'd see what it was all about. Thank you, 144p Handheld Cam-Recorded Megamind!

 

[sketchesofpayne]

It's cool hearing you guys talk about your first exposure to Vocaloid.

Whenever I get into a new hobby or fandom I usually end up reading most of the associated wiki.
Back in 2013 I read the entire Touhou wiki over the course of a year.

 

[Rylitah]

Not related to the current topic, sorry, but Vocalomakets really wants people to write fanfiction of Yukari and/or Akari, apparently.

Funny thing is, they have a list of characters they want people to write about... and it includes every single iteration of Yukari listed separately (Akari is only listed once). So I guess every Yukari is a different person going by Vocalomakets' lore - especially given the line right before the list that says something like 'Not only can you include Yuzuki Yukari, but you can also use Yuzuki Yukari Rei and others!'

 

[peaches2217]

Yukari is literally me as a kid. Every time I put on a new outfit, I'd give myself a new name and epic backstory.

We stan.

 

[Prism]

My first time with vocaloid was lens cover of Pon Pon Pon at the time the original wasn't on YouTube and my friend recommended it to me. I then saw mmd dances of happy synthesiser and thought it was a dance game like just dance or something.